History Hack
1,124 episodes - English - Latest episode: 20 days ago - ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsWe are a slightly mad, always fun podcast bringing you all the History you love and a lot that you didn‘t know you‘d love until you heard it here! Recommended by BBC Radio, and presented by acclaimed historian Alexandra Churchill, Alina Nowobilska, Chris Sams and the rest of the awesome team!
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#23 History Hack: Pole Position
April 10, 2020 10:05 - 23 minutes - 10.9 MBHistorian and academic Włodzimierz Borodziej joins Alex and Alina for a discussion on the tragic, heroic events of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.
#22 History Hack: Dying to Look Good
April 09, 2020 14:34 - 39 minutes - 17.6 MBAlex and Alina are joined by US historian Carolyn Day to discuss, well, lunacy. In a world where everyone is hiding to stay healthy, we talk about mad Georgians and early Victorians who went out of their way to look like they were dying of disease and why. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch: https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...
#21 History Hack: Atlantis is Fake
April 08, 2020 14:55 - 39 minutes - 17.9 MBUnderwater Archaeologist Peter Campbell joins Alex and Alina to deliver a crash course in his subject. Find out all about sunken cities, close shaves, grave-robbing, shipwrecks. not to mention hidden caves; and prepare to be disappointed when he tells us why the Lost City of Atlantis isn't real. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch: https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Hosted on Acas...
#20 History Hack: Reimagining Old Japan
April 07, 2020 12:11 - 42 minutes - 19.4 MBAuthor and Historian Lesley Downer joins us to share her love of Japanese history and culture. From geishas, to Dutch merchants, to enforced assimilation with the west, we find out how a love of all things Japanese impacts her writing and why Whats'app is keeping people going. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch: https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...
#19 History Hack: First to Fight
April 06, 2020 14:09 - 39 minutes - 17.9 MBRoger Moorhouse joins Alex and Alina to talk all about his latest book First to Fight. Find out all you need to know about the Polish campaign of 1939, why it played out the way it did, and why Guy Walters lacked the mechanical know-how to fix his lawnmower under lockdown... Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch: https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...
#18 History Hack: 1536
April 05, 2020 11:29 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBSuzannah Lipscomb joins Alex and Alina to talk about the year that changed everything for Henry VIII. We talk wives, bastards, church reform, rebellions and why avoiding the news as much as possible during the Covid-19 crisis is about the only way to stay sane. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch: https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...
#17 History Hack: The Brothers Holland
April 04, 2020 13:54 - 59 minutes - 40.3 MBHistorical bros Tom and James Holland join us to answer you classical, religious and WW2 questions, talk about how they grew to love history together and recall some of the greatest matches in cricket history as a potentially wasted season approaches. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch: https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
#16 History Hack: Down the Pub
April 03, 2020 18:10 - 1 hour - 82.3 MBJoin the gang at The Mary Rose virtual pub for another history debate. Alex and Alina are joined by judges The-Not-So-Honourable Holmes and Lord Klopp-Dyer for an oft-riotous discussion on History's Nastiest Villain. Panelists include Historians Rebecca Rideal, Emma Southon and Benedict Holme. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch: https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Hosted on Acast....
#15 History Hack: The Truth is Out There
April 03, 2020 14:18 - 38 minutes - 87.7 MBIsraeli historian and archaeologist Gilad Jaffe joins Alex and Alina to give you a crash course in Biblical Archaeology. How easy is it to marry up evidence on the ground with the contents of the good book? And what are the pitfalls of being too desperate to make it happen? And what has happened to Gilad's Indiana Jones hat? Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch: https://www.histor...
#14 History Hack: Pole Position
April 03, 2020 10:50 - 53 minutes - 120 MBBrace yourselves, this is something to get really stuck into. Sławomir Debski, Director of the Polish Institute of International Affairs, joins Alex and Alina to discuss Poland's relationship with Russia, Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. A rare chance to hear a total powerhouse on the subject. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch: https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Hosted on...
#13 History Hack: Victorian Freak Shows
April 02, 2020 15:07 - 32 minutes - 73.3 MBAlex and Alina are joined by rising history star John Woolf to talk all about his book The Wonders and the Victorian Freak Show. Equally heartbreaking as it is fun, we learn about performers through history, the lives they led, and why even if The Greatest Showman was actually a git, Hugh Jackman is still gorgeous. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch: https://www.historyhackpod....
#12 History Hack: Football's 50 Most Important Moments
April 01, 2020 16:21 - 45 minutes - 102 MBAlex and Alina are joined by Gareth Thomas and Ben Jones, the award winning Football History Boys, as they bring you some history to fill the sporting void. Teams, players, moments, rule changes, tragedies and the matches that have shaped the history of the beautiful game; as well as some admissions to random Covid19 purchases of absolute nonsense. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack ...
#11 History Hack: Belgium in WW1
March 31, 2020 19:25 - 38 minutes - 85.8 MBAlex and Alina interview Belgian historians Gregory Verfaillie and Martial Masschelein about their country’s experience of the Great War. Learn about refugees, holding off the German invasion, prostitution and unwed mothers, how Belgians still live with the war every day, and why they’ve all been panic buying headache tablets. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch: https://www.his...
#10 History Hack: Crucible of Hell
March 30, 2020 15:21 - 37 minutes - 33.4 MBJoin Alex and Alina as they talk to Saul David about his smash hit new book: Crucible of Hell: Okinawa, the Last Great Battle of the Second World War. Saul puts the battle into context, explains the thought process behind Kamikaze pilots, the truth about Hacksaw Ridge, the morality of dropping atomic bombs and makes our day with the revelation that gin and tonic might be all you need to combat Covid-19. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack B...
#9 History Hack: Mastering the Middle Ages
March 29, 2020 13:42 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBScholar and TV Historian Dan Jones joins Alex and Alina for a Medieval Q&A. Learn about what he’s working on now, how you go about writing an epic, who his favourite (dead) women are, why Philippa Gregory novels should not form the basis of conpiracy theories, and how to home school like a boss. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch: https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Hosted ...
#8 History Hack: Hail Mary!
March 28, 2020 14:00 - 50 minutes - 46 MBThe undisputed Queen of Antiquity joins Alex and Alina for a Q&A session. Mary Beard tackles your questions with tales of plagues, Pompeii, parenting and porn. Find out about the Roman equivalent of Trip Advisor, how to swear in Latin, why gin and tonic fixes everything, and why personal grooming during a pandemic is for wimps. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch: https://www.hi...
#7 History Hack: Down the Pub
March 27, 2020 15:42 - 1 hour - 80.1 MBNaval philistines and Judges the Not-So-Honourable Andrew Holmes and the Downright-Sozzled Alina Nowobilska are subjected by Alex to a debate on the greatest ship ever built at our first Friday night virtual pub session. The winning vessel will constitute the name of the boozer from now on, so listen as enthusiasts and experts, including representatives from the Mary Rose Museum and the Australian National Maritime Museum, make the case for the favourites in a semi-chaotic and jovial podcast...
#6 History Hack: Blitz Spirit
March 27, 2020 09:30 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBWe keep hearing about the need to embrace it in the face of Covid-19, but what is "Blitz Spirit?" Did it even exist? Historian and Consultant Joshua Levine joins us to talk about his hit book The Secret History of the Blitz. Learn about the parallels between 1940 and now; we ask how badly did people behave, and were the authorities prepared? Hear about the dark side of this fabled period of British history, why Sooty the bear was disturbing, and why garden centres near Josh need to up their ...
#5 History Hack: Pole Position
March 27, 2020 07:43 - 24 minutes - 22 MBIn the first in this weekly English language series with a focus on Polish History, Alex and Alina talk to Dr. Pawel Markiewicz about his research into German/Ukrainian Collaboration in the General Government during WW2. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch: https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
#4 History Hack: Providence Lost
March 26, 2020 12:23 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBHistorian and Editor of History Today Paul Lay discusses his new book Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of the English Republic with Alex and Alina. Find out some of what made the incredibly complex character of Oliver Cromwell tick before, during, and after the Civil War. Learn all about his Puritan vision for England and brace yourself for an increase in lunacy on social media. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk...
#3 History Hack: George V & Edward VIII
March 25, 2020 12:36 - 40 minutes - 36.4 MBExperience the surreal. Alina interviews Alex about the deteriorating relationship between George V and Edward VIII and her research into how it impacted the abdication in 1937. Hear about the Royal family dynamic in WW1, find out if George V really was a terrible father and get a sneak peak into what currently redundant BBC football commentators are up to with all their new-found freedom. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books...
#2 History Hack: War Queens
March 24, 2020 12:04 - 46 minutes - 42 MBFather-daughter duo Jon and Emily Jordan join Alex and Alina from lockdown near Atlanta to talk about their new book War Queens: Extraordinary Woman Who Ruled the Battlefield. As they skim back and forth across the globe bringing you tales of badass women, find out who makes their top three, who surprised them the most, who they didn't particularly like and what happens when the local Walmart announces that they've had a delivery of paper towels. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyh...
#1 History Hack: Nazi Conspiracies
March 23, 2020 11:39 - 40 minutes - 92.5 MBAlex and Alina are joined for their maiden podcast effort by Hunting Evil author and WW2 heavyweight Guy Walters and historian Luke Daly-Groves, who has had enough of people saying Hitler didn't die in his bunker and has written Hitler's Death. They talk escapes, or lack of them, why evidence needs to be treated with care when composing conspiracy theories, and what happens when your lawnmower explodes during a pandemic. Buy Guy's Book: https://amzn.to/2F9DKlV Buy Luke's Book: https://amzn...
#1 History Hack: Nazi Conspiracies
March 23, 2020 09:37 - 40 minutes - 92.5 MBAlex and Alina are joined for their maiden podcast effort by Hunting Evil author and WW2 heavyweight Guy Walters and historian Luke Daly-Groves, who has had enough of people saying Hitler didn't die in his bunker and has written Hitler's Death. They talk escapes, or lack of them, why evidence needs to be treated with care when composing conspiracy theories, and what happens when your lawnmower explodes during a pandemic. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.c...